If you aren’t cheating, you aren’t trying! Are you looking at MRIs? Feeling some confusion about the diffusion? Feel impaired when it comes to the FLAIR? Wish you could cheat a little? Here’s a post to help you cheat on all the sequences you NEED to know if you are looking

Wish you had a sixth sense to localize that sixth cranial nerve palsy?   Feeling six feet under when you see a sixth nerve deficit?   Here’s a how to locate the lesion in a sixth cranial nerve palsy!   Just remember the Six Syndromes of the Sixth Cranial Nerve!   One syndrome for

Don’t get locked in when it comes to brainstem syndromes!! Do you just say the lesion is in the pons or medulla & hope no one asks questions?? You can do better!! Here is the anatomy that you need to know to understand brainstem syndromes and localize lesions on MRI! You can

Time to go with the flow!   Do you know the anatomy of internal carotid artery (ICA)?   Do you just say “carotid siphon” & hope no one asks for more detail?   Do you even know what "carotid siphon" means??   Here’s how to remember the ICA segments so they just flow off your

1/Asking “How old are you?” can be dicey—both in real life & on MRI! Do you know how to tell the age of blood on MRI? Here’s a thread on how to date blood on MRI so that the next time you see a hemorrhage, your guess on when it happened will always be in the right vein!

Don’t lie!! Do you just say a lesion is in the white matter & move on? Do you just corona radiata or centrum semiovale & hope no one asks questions? That’s like saying a fracture is in “the leg” & moving on! Just like cortical regions have function, so does the white matter!

1/Radiologist not answering the phone? Just want a quick read on that stat head CT? Here's a little help on how to do it yourself w/a thread on how to read a head CT!

1/Ready to seize the day w/epilepsy imaging? Everyone knows mesial temporal sclerosis (MTS)! But did you know there are different KINDS of MTS?? Read on for this month's @theAJNR SCANtastic on what YOU need to know in the latest in epilepsy imaging! https://t.co/7YTaauQ87n

1/Have MULTIPLE questions about the new criteria for MULTIPLE sclerosis? ECTRIMS 2024 just came out w/proposed new changes to the McDonald criteria for multiple sclerosis. The changes are complex, but here is a thread w/the basics that you NEED to know!

1/Hate it when one radiologist called the stenosis mild, the next one said moderate--but it was unchanged?! How do you grade it? Do you estimate? Measure? Guess??? Here’s a thread about a lumbar grading system that’s easy, reproducible & evidence-based!

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1/Nothing is more CENTRAL to reading an MRI than finding the CENTRAL sulcus? How do YOU find it? Are you just using gestalt when you say “frontal” or “parietal”?  Time to recenter your search pattern with this thread on how to find the central sulcus on a brain MRI!

Balloon Angioplasty vs Medical Management for Intracranial Artery Stenosis: The BASIS Randomized Clinical Trial in JAMA: 1.🧠 Purpose: The BASIS trial compared balloon angioplasty plus aggressive medical management versus aggressive medical management alone for symptomatic

Your baby’s all grown up! Cerebellum may mean “little brain” but its anything but little! How well do YOU know cerebellar anatomy? Do you just say “cerebellar hemisphere” & hope nobody asks? Here's the functional anatomy that you NEED to know in the cerebellum! Everyone

1/Feeling mad every time they ask you if it’s safe to give gad? Do you know which gadolinium contrast material is safe to give? At an impasse about the contrast class? Read on as this month’s @theAJNR SCANtastic answers the question: Is Gad Bad? https://t.co/qy5IltQvmS

If you aren’t cheating, you aren’t trying! Are you looking at MRIs? Feeling some confusion about the diffusion? Feel impaired when it comes to the FLAIR? Wish you could cheat a little? Here’s a little cheat sheet on all the sequences you NEED to know if you are looking at

1/Is your understanding of medial temporal anatomy, well, temporary? If only there was a way to make hippocampal anatomy memorable! Here is a thread of the basics of hippocampal anatomy that will hopefully stay in your hippocampus!

1/Tired of stressing if a brain tumor is progressing? Wish you had some insurance about calling tumor recurrence? Here’s the cheat sheet you NEED for the best signs of tumor progression!

Time to go for the jugular when it comes to carotid stenosis! Degree of stenosis isn’t all that matters Here’s cheat sheet you NEED to remember the risky features of carotid plaques Read on for the newest @theAJNR SCANtatistic on carotid stenosis: https://t.co/RlJa9J2tOo

#MondayTip Advances in Cerebral Venous Thrombosis #CVT From recent review by @Diana_A_Sousa and @LiaLucasNeto in @StrokeAHA_ASA #OpenAcces https://t.co/oMEHmu4qVC